Course Support: HID-I Health, Illness and Disease-I

Consists of two journals ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine, a joint publication with the British Medical Journal Group.

• Review drug prescribing and safety information for thousands of brand, generic, and OTC drugs
• Check for potentially harmful drug-drug interactions among up to 30 drugs at a time
• Identify pills by imprint code and physical characteristics
• Access timely medical news and research information
• Perform dozens of calculations, such as BMI and GFR

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Do you need evidence-based answers to clinical questions at the point of care? The First Consult iPhone/iPad app is your solution. The app allows First Consult’s trusted answers to be stored on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. A data connection is required for the initial content download and content updates, but is not required to use the app itself.

Notes: Log in with your ClinicalKey account created from a WCMC-networked computer.

Comprehensive calculator of EBMr-related statistics. Available for iPhone, iPod, and Android.

The Skyscape Medical Library (SML) app is the only decision-support tool for Physicians, Nurses, Students and Healthcare Professionals with over 400 resources/titles from leading Publishers, Authors and Medical Societies. Originally released over 20 years ago as a first mHealth tool of its kind, over its lifetime it has been trusted by more than 2.6 million Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) to access the medical resources they know and trust at the point of care.

From the maker of the apps 'The ECG Guide' and 'Pedi STAT' comes 'Calculate', a next-generation clinical calculator and decision support tool, freely available to the medical community.

DynaMed is a clinical reference database with more than 3,100 evidence-based clinical summaries updated daily and intended for use primarily at the point-of-care. If your institution subscribes to DynaMed, download this application and contact your site administrator for the necessary access code. Once the access code has been entered, you will have access to DynaMed content for the duration of your institution’s subscription.
Note:To find more information about installing and authenticating this app, see this link for more information.

CATmaker is a software tool which helps you create Critically Appraised Topics (CATs) for studies in therapy, diagnosis, rognosis, and harm and Systematic Reviews of Therapy." It works at all stages of this process, from creating a clinical question, developing a search strategy, to calculating clinical measures, to creating summaries of the work done. Note: Windows only. The site also includes EBM calculators (which require Shockwave.)

Worksheets to guide in the critical appraisal of medical evidence, and examples of their use.

Dartmouth College's Biomedical Libraries have produced a series of critical appraisal worksheets addressing most areas of EBM, including: asking a clinical question, appraising studies, and applying evidence to patients.

A versatile tool that calculates sensitivity, specificity, relative risk, absolute relative risk, odds ratios, and more. Note: requires that JavaScript be turned on.

A selection of EBM-related tools, including an EBM stats calculator (see above), critical appraisal sheets, and tools for converting EBM stats, e.g. OR to NNT.

The Graphic Appraisal Tool for Epidemiological studies (GATE) frame is "a visual framework that illustrates the generic design of all epidemiological studies".
Jackson, R., Ameratunga, S., Broad, J., Connor, J., Lethaby, A., Robb, G., Wells, S., Glasziou, P., & Heneghan, C. (2006). The GATE frame: Critical appraisal with pictures. Evidence-Based Medicine, 11(2), 35–38. https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm.11.2.35